Dáithí Ó Sé

Dáithi Ó Sé: ‘I keep change in my car for the tolls and it can go missing. My young fella is my main man and suspect’

Me & My Money: Dáithi Ó Sé is a television presenter

Mon Oct 07 2024 - 06:00

New Zealand’s Keely O’Grady wins Rose of Tralee 2024: ‘I can’t really put it into words. I’m shaking so much’

Television: ‘What I’m most looking forward to is doing this for my country as an International Rose. We’ve only had two New Zealand Roses. It means a lot to me’

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 23:18

Patrick Freyne: I ooh as one Rose plays the spoons, aah as another risks ripping a hole in the space-time continuum

The second night of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is always when my cynicism retreats and I drink the red lemonade

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 22:00

The Rose of Tralee 2024 first night review: Card tricks, harp-playing and The Proclaimers parped out on the bagpipes

Television: It’s the 63rd year of the contest that Father Ted paradied as the Lovely Girls Competition, and there’s no sign of it running out of steam

Tue Aug 20 2024 - 00:08

Rose of Tralee: what time does it start, who will win and everything you need to know

Television: Contest has survived huge changes in society and remains popular – if controversial – part of national calendar

Mon Aug 19 2024 - 16:23

TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight

March 17th-22nd: From St Patrick’s Day frolics to the rich people’s playground of Palm Royale

Sun Mar 17 2024 - 05:00

TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch

Highlights include Dancing with the Stars and a new series of Room to Improve with Dermot Bannon

Sun Jan 07 2024 - 05:00

Fighting baldness: ‘We’ve stopped repairing transplants from Turkey. They’re so badly mutilated’

The young men faced with receding identities, one hair at a time

Sun Dec 10 2023 - 05:00

Today lies between Prime Time and Teletubbies, with Dáithí a blend of David McCullagh and a baby-faced sun

Patrick Freyne: Dáithí Ó Sé and Sinead Kennedy are back on air to tell us everything is fine. Doctors could prescribe this to overstimulated teens or pets

Fri Sept 29 2023 - 05:15

Maura Derrane: ‘Sexually explicit comments were acceptable years ago. A kind of public shaming. I learned to be tough’

The daytime TV presenter has been a rotating stand-in host on the Nine O’Clock Show - her first time broadcasting on radio

Sat Sept 23 2023 - 06:00

Rose of Tralee 2023: Brianna Parkins on the real winner of this year’s competition

Television: Only the strongest can survive the contest’s format of doing a tell-us-about-yourself exercise in Spanx and a ball gown on live television

Wed Aug 23 2023 - 00:56

Gay Byrne’s perfect family summer: ‘We have such fond memories of going out in the boat with Dad’

Crona Byrne, Dáithí Ó Sé and others on finding a home from home to pass through the generations

Wed Aug 11 2021 - 06:01

95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals

By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more

Sat Apr 24 2021 - 06:00

‘We totally gatecrashed Dolores O’Riordan’s wedding. I loved her punk style’

Soundtrack of My Life: Sinead Kennedy on her 1980s obsession and missing gigs in lockdown

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 06:00

Dáithí Ó Sé: ‘A baby comes along and you realise what life is really about’

Fatherhood a defining moment for Ó Sé, who spends as much time as he can with his son

Tue Dec 01 2020 - 06:01

Limerick entrant Sinead Flanagan wins 2019 Rose of Tralee

27-year-old junior doctor succeeds Waterford Rose Kirsten Mate Maher

Wed Aug 28 2019 - 09:57

Rose of Tralee: Daithí Ó Sé is as sturdy as an oak as host, and as quick as one on his feet

TV review: On day two of the festival the host seemed to be closest to wilting. That was before he got his kinky boots on

Wed Aug 28 2019 - 06:15

Rose of Tralee: Dáithí Ó Sé looked like a man briefly encased in a giant condom

TV review: It’s the 60th anniversary of the pageant, but it seems older, eternal even. At least watching the first show felt that way

Tue Aug 27 2019 - 06:00

Rose of Tralee kicks off again: ‘Why not have it? Girls love to dress up’

Festival’s 60th edition competes with All-Ireland build-up for Kerry’s attention

Mon Aug 26 2019 - 22:56

Rose of Tralee 2019: ‘My escort’s name is Kate – and she is HOT’

What Roses will least likely say, and everything else you need to know about the festival

Mon Aug 26 2019 - 06:00

Rose of Tralee 2018: Waterford Rose takes the crown

Student and part-time model Kirsten Mate Maher (21) wins the competition

Wed Aug 22 2018 - 00:35

Rose of Tralee: Pickup-style questions, job-interview answers

TV Review: The one radical moment in Monday night’s broadcast turns out to be a glitch

Mon Aug 20 2018 - 23:45

Patrick Freyne picks the best TV shows on the way for Autumn

Alison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: Shergar

Wed Sept 20 2017 - 13:46

New Rose of Tralee : ‘Lovely girls contest’ comments are unfair

Jennifer Byrne defends competition saying fellow Roses are very modern women

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 18:59

‘Absolutely in shock’: Offaly’s Jennifer Byrne crowned Rose of Tralee

Junior doctor expresses the hope that she will do the participants all proud

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 00:28

That time of year again as the Roses are in bloom in Tralee

Dáithí Ó Sé to host his eighth contest, but 65 hopefuls will be cut to 32 before TV coverage

Tue Aug 15 2017 - 20:26

From Bosco to TK to farmer’s tan: the true touchstones of Irish culture

Never mind Beckett or Joyce or Sinéad O’Connor or Love/Hate, these are the things that truly make us Irish

Wed Jun 21 2017 - 13:30

Oliver Callan: Of course Kenny should meet Trump

It might be trendy to join the condemnation but the sensible approach is to wait and see

Wed Feb 01 2017 - 01:30

2016 people: Sydney Rose Brianna Parkins. ‘Was it worth it? Yes’

‘Should I have kept my mouth shut? Honestly, I would have made a crap Rose of Tralee’

Fri Dec 23 2016 - 11:00

And the Taste of Success winner is ...

Meat pie sees off challenge from banana bread and earns its creator €100,000

Tue Dec 13 2016 - 21:00

Oliver Callan: Society as it really is on the Late Late Toy Show

The public sector, left wing, emigrants, farmers and elite all play their parts

Fri Dec 02 2016 - 01:00

Inside the Rose of Tralee: It's like a 'Kate Middleton impersonation competition'

After my TV interview with Dáithí Ó Sé the media manager tells me I’ve let him down. I tell him I feel the same way

Sat Aug 27 2016 - 03:00

Chicago’s Maggie McEldowney crowned Rose of Tralee 2016

Winner says she wants to change public perception that festival is a beauty pageant

Wed Aug 24 2016 - 13:18

Rose of Tralee TV review: It’s all about retro stardust

Hilary Fannin: ‘A sense of how moving it might be for emigré families to see young women breathe new life into their ancestry’

Wed Aug 24 2016 - 07:24